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Search engines in Fennec — Guidelines update

After getting some feedback on my previous post about search engines in Fennec, I made slight modifications to the suggested guidelines. The main difference is the inclusion of a social search category. The social aspect is a powerful and appealing part of the mobile context (see Madhava’s Mobile User is Mobile presentation) and we are [...]


How to test beta locales using Litmus. A short guide.

Testing is an important step in the process of making a new localization ready for its debut as a final locale. It’s also a great way of improving the quality of localization when the locale is still in the beta status, as well as after it’s been published as final, for example prior to the [...]


Let’s make the l10n documentation better

Abstract: Help us improve the l10n documentation by participating in creating a complete inventory of our documentation resources at Delicious. All you need to do is to bookmark any page with useful l10n documentation content at Delicious and tag it with “for:mozdocs”. That’s all it takes!
This quarter, the l10n drivers team has set out on [...]


Mozilla Fennec L10n Productization Guidelines: Part 4. Search engines

Search engine plug-ins are arguably the most prominent and the most talked about component of productization. Every localization team working on Firefox goes through the process (supported by these guidelines) of choosing the search engines whose plug-ins will be available by default in the localized builds.
We’d like to use the same approach for Fennec. For [...]


Mozilla Fennec L10n Productization Guidelines: Part 3. Compatibility criterion

A couple of weeks ago, I started a series of posts about the productization guidelines for localized Fennec builds. Post one discussed productization and why we need separate guidelines for Fennec.  Post two described the purpose of productization.
Today, let’s discuss the compatibility criterion, which I believe is the most important guideline for localizers to consider.
The [...]


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